The Official Feed and Food Controls Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Interpretation of this PartN.I.

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21.  In this Part —

“authorised officer”, in relation to an enforcement authority, means any person (whether or not an officer of the authority) who is authorised by it in writing, either generally or specially, to act in matters arising under the Import Provisions;

“the Commissioners” means the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs;

“enforcement authority” means the feed authority or a district council;

“feed” does not include additives of a type mentioned in Article 6(1)(e) of or paragraph 4(d) of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on additives for use in animal nutrition(1) as amended or any premixture consisting solely of a combination of such additives;

“outside Northern Ireland enforcement authority” means the body responsible for enforcing the legislation in force with respect to imported products in any part of the United Kingdom except Northern Ireland;

[F1“product” means feed and food of non-animal origin whose import is regulated by Article 44 or Article 47(1)(d), (e) or (f) of Regulation 2017/625 and includes composite products and foodstuffs which are not required to be subject to veterinary checks as provided in Commission Decision 2007/275/EC concerning lists of composite products to be subject to controls at border control posts;]

“the relevant territories” means the territories referred to in Annex I to [F2Regulation 2017/625]; and

[F3“specified import provision” means any provision of Regulation 2017/625 or the Regulation 2017/625 package that is specified in column 1 of Schedule 6 and whose subject-matter is described in column 2 of that Schedule.]

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 21 in operation at 25.1.2010, see reg. 1

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OJ No. L268, 18.10.2003, p.29, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No.596/2009 (OJ No. L188,18.7.2009